KEY PASSAGE
9 You take care of the earth and water it, making it rich and fertile. The river of God has plenty of water; it provides a bountiful harvest of grain, for you have ordered it so. 10 You drench the plowed ground with rain, melting the clods and leveling the ridges. You soften the earth with showers and bless its abundant crops.
– Psalms 65:9-10
WHAT IS PRAYER
7 “Ask and keep on asking and it will be given to you; seek and keep on seeking and you will find; knock and keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who keeps on asking receives, and he who keeps on seeking finds, and to him who keeps on knocking, it will be opened.
– Matthew 7:7-8
ASK- MEANS (ASK, BEG, TO CALL FOR, CRAVE, DESIRE, OR REQUIRE)
24 “It shall also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
– Isaiah 65:24
2cYou lust and do not have. You murder and covet and cannot obtain. You fight and war. Yet you do not have because you do not ask.
– James 4:2
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,
– Ephesians 3:20
14 This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
– 1 JOHN 5:14
SEEK-MEANS (SEEK AFTER, SEEK FOR, CRAVE)
29 But from there you will seek the Lord your God, and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul.
– Deuteronomy 4:29
6 Seek the Lord while He may be found; Call on Him [for salvation] while He is near.
– Isaiah 55:6
KNOCK- (To knock at the door)(persistence)
20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and will dine with him, and he with Me.
– Revelation 3:20
25 Now about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God, and the prisoners were listening to them; 26 and suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened, and everyone’s chains were unfastened. 27 When the jailer awoke and saw the prison doors opened, he drew his sword and was about to kill himself, thinking that the prisoners had escaped. 28 But Paul called out with a loud voice, saying, “Do not harm yourself, for we are all here!”
– Acts 16:25-28